All applications for regular competitive examinations for admission to
the classified civil service must be made on blank forms to be
prescribed by the Commission.
Requests for blank forms of application for competitive examination for
admission to the classified civil service and all regular applications
for such examination shall be made--
1. If for the classified departmental service, to the United States
Civil Service Commission at Washington, D.C.
2. If for the classified customs service, to the civil-service board of
examiners for the customs district in which the person desiring to be
examined wishes to enter the customs service.
3. If for the classified postal service, to the civil-service board of
examiners for the post-office at which the person desiring to be
examined wishes to enter the postal service.
Requests for blank forms of application to customs and postal boards of
examiners must be made in writing by the persons desiring examination,
and such blank forms shall not be furnished to any other persons.
Approved, August 13, 1886.